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1 Draft INTEGRATING MIGRATION INTO DEVELOPMENT Diaspora as a development enabler 2-3 October 2014 International conferences Room Piazzale della Farnesina Rome, Italy DAY 1 Thursday, 2 October Registration of participants Opening remarks Facilitator: IOM Chief of Mission in Italy William Lacy Swing Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Fernando Frutuoso De Melo DG Development and Cooperation EuropeAid Trends in Migration and Development, including the post-2015 UN Development Agenda and Recent Regional Developments Keynote speech: Samia Nkrumah (TBC) Parliament of Ghana, former Diaspora representative Coffee Break The role of diaspora in sustainable development Speaker: Gibril Faal Chairman of the African Foundation for Development - AFFORD

2 PANEL 1. Facilitating Remittance Transfers and Investment Opportunities Session I - Remittances and innovative transfer mechanisms 3 speakers (15 min./speaker min. Q&A /discussion) Moderator: Marco Nicoli The World Bank, Remittances Specialist Min. Plen. Luca Ferrari, Deputy Director General for Global Affairs - Pedro De Vasconcelos, Programme Manager Financing Facility for Remittances, IFAD - Pascal Clivaz, DDG Universal Postal Union Session II - Productive investments through transnational partnerships and joint-ventures Moderator: Raffaele Fantetti Italian Ministry of Economic Development Kingsley Aikins, CEO Diaspora Matters - Nabil Itani, Chairman of IDAL (Investment Development Authority of Lebanon) - Zalia Boubacar, Secretariat executif du CNEDD - Conseil national de l'environnement pour un Développement Durable (video) Lunch break

3 PANEL 2. Migrants transnational communities for co-development Session I - Diasporas social capital, linking source and destination societies at the local level Moderator: Julien Simon EUROMED Migration III Team Leader - Lassaad Laabidi, DG OTE (Office des Tunisiens à l Etranger) - Francesco Petrelli, Spokesperson CONCORD Italy - Lukas Gehrke, ICMPD, Director-Southern Dimension Break Session II: Migrants role in transition and reconstruction processes Moderator: Gervais Appave IOM, Special Policy Adviser to the DG Hassan Ali Warsame, Office of the Prime Minister - Special Advisor to the Federal Republic of Somalia - French MFA, Migration and Development Department (TBC) - Mingo Heiduk, Danish Refugee Council - Coordinator Diaspora Programme

4 DAY 2 Friday, 3 October 2014 PANEL 3 - Migrants initiatives for climate change adaptation and mitigation Session I - Mainstreaming human mobility in adaptation to climate change policies and actions Moderator: Martin Frick German Ambassador to the UN in Bonn Raffaele Salinari, President of Terre Des Hommes International Federation - Iulia Sevciuc, UNESCO Programme Specialist - Tadesse Bekele Fanta, Advisor to Disaster Risk Management & Food Security, Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture Coffee break Session II- Facilitating migrants and diasporas contributions for land-based adaptation and resilience Moderator: Moujahed Achouri FAO, Director, Land and Water Division Elisabeth Barsk-Rundquist, UNCCD Officer-in-Charge of the Global Mechanism - Mohammed Bakarr, GEF - Global Environmental Facility, Environmental Specialist Division Natural Resources (TBC) - Matar Cissé, DG Agence Nationale de la Grande Muraille Verte Q&A session - Identifying priorities and the way forward

5 Lunch break Peter Sutherland UN Special Representative of the SG for International migration and Development The way forward: Amb. Eva Åkerman Börje (TBC) and Mehmet Samsar (Ambassador, Director General, Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Overview of the Swedish and Turkish Chairmanship of the Global Forum on Migration and Development Summary and policy recommendations Gervais Appave IOM, Special Policy Adviser to the DG Closing remarks

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